Edmund Burke: “Otherwise we should dispute all the points of morality, before we can punish a murderer, robber, and adulterer; we…”

They cannot raise supplies; but they can raise mobs.

Not being illuminated with the light of which the gentlemen of France tell us they have got so abundant a share, they acted under a strong impression of the ignorance and fallibility of mankind.

They rob only to enable them to cheat; but in a very short time they defeat the ends both of the robbery and the fraud, by making out accounts for other purposes, which blow up their whole apparatus of force and of deception.

It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.